Mysuru: Hotel Owners’ Association trying to increase voter turnouts and create voter awareness among the people has come out with a string of attractions to draw the voters to the Polling Booths by offering them huge discounts. Addressing a press conference at the Pathrakartara Bhavan here yesterday, Mysuru Hotel Owners’ Association President C. Narayanagowda said…
Lok Sabha Polls: Observers for Mysuru-Kodagu
April 16, 2019Mysuru: In the backdrop of Lok Sabha elections, the following persons will be working as General, Police and Expenditure Observers. While Kuldeep Narayan is the General Observer, Vikas Patak will be the Police Observer and Sandeep Kumar Mishra and Suraj Kumar Gupta will be working as Expenditure Observers. While Sandeep will take care of Madikeri,…
Cops conduct surprise raid at jail
April 16, 2019Mysuru: The City Police Commissionerate yesterday conducted a surprise raid at Mysuru Central Jail ahead of the forthcoming LS elections. A team of Police Commission-erate conducted the raid from 1 pm to 2.30 pm. Over 175 officers and staff from Police Stations were in the 17 raiding teams formed under the leadership of DCP (L&O)…
Farmer killed as power line snaps and falls on him
April 16, 2019Mysuru: A farmer, who was working in a sugarcane field, was killed after a live power line snapped and fell on him at Yelegowdanahundi village in the taluk yesterday morning. The deceased farmer is Gavisiddegowda (50), son of late Yelegowda of the village. Yesterday morning, Gavisiddegowda was working in the sugarcane field of one Mustaj…
Gambling: 11 arrested, Rs.51,190 stake money seized
April 16, 2019Mysuru: KR Police have arrested 11 persons on charges of gambling in public place and have seized Rs.51,190 stake money from them. Acting on a tip off that a group of persons were gambling in public place at Sunnadakeri on Saturday night, KR Inspector Narayanaswamy and staff, raided the spot and arrested the accused. SI…
Mother, daughter commit suicide
April 16, 2019Bettadapura: Increasing debts has forced a women and her daughter to commit suicide by consuming poison at Echuru village in Periyapatna taluk on Sunday. The deceased are Lolakshi (28) and her daughter Sandhya (10). Lolakshi, a native of Doddabelalu village had married Suresh of Echuru village 10 years ago. Suresh, who owned two acre land,…
Selected for ‘Spark Catch Them Young’
April 16, 2019Rohith S. Murthy, M.S. Manyashree and V. Sinchana, Class VIII students of Acharya Vidya Kula, Mysuru, have been selected for ‘Spark – Catch Them Young (CTY) – 2019’ training programme to be held at Infosys Mysuru campus. The training began from yesterday (Apr.15).
Excels in Paper Presentation
April 16, 2019Mysuru: Dr. K.L. Sunil Tejaswi, Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Dr. S. Ganesh, Reader, Department of Prosthodontics, JSS Dental College and Hospital, Mysuru, won 2nd Best Paper (Oral Presentation) Award at the International Conference on ‘Advanced Functional Materials for Energy, Environment and Health Care 2019’ held at University of Mysore (UoM), Manasagangothri, recently. The…
Three meet watery grave
April 16, 2019Mandya: Three youths, who had gone for a swim at a lake in Mangala village in Mandya yesterday afternoon, have been drowned. The deceased youths are Chandan, Arjun and another youth. A group of six youths from Halahalli Ashoka Nagar in Mandya had gone to the lake for a swim out of which four youths…
Musings on Shashi Tharoor and his ‘Paradoxical Prime Minister’
April 16, 2019Reading books has many advantages to those who have no friends and those who have problem getting sleep. As for me, I have friends and no problem sleeping the moment I hit the sack, exceptions apart. All the same, I continue my old habit of reading books. After all, old habits die hard, it is…















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